[vdr] vdr-api: how to check if VDR is up?

2009-06-08 Thread Christian Wieninger
Hi, the epgsearch plugin handles some tasks as separate threads, that also use SVDRP to talk to VDR. Currently these threads are started after a fixed time (e.g. 20s) to give VDR the time to start up. A user reported that epgsearch fails in SVDRP communication, because VDR was still waiting

Re: [vdr] making VDR ext4-ready

2009-06-08 Thread jori.hamalainen
On 07.06.2009 01:58, Marcel Witte wrote: So ext4 seems to be perfect for a video-partition, but to make it more perfect, it would be nice if VDR could use the fallocate()-systemcall as mentioned in the article. This would prevent fragmentation in the file system. Udo wrote: Sounds like a

[vdr] repeat Vol key

2009-06-08 Thread martinez
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 19:30:34 +0200 From: Gerald Dachs v...@dachsweb.de Subject: Re: [vdr] repeat vol key To: vdr@linuxtv.org Message-ID: 20090607193034.5ef1f...@master Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII I use the remote that comes with the Hauppagge S2-HD (and hence connected to the card

Re: [vdr] Build failures with gcc 4.4

2009-06-08 Thread Ludwig Nussel
Klaus Schmidinger wrote: On 04.06.2009 09:12, Ludwig Nussel wrote: ... So gcc 4.4 finally hit openSUSE as well. I use the attached patch to make vdr compile. Seems to work fine too. The code that requires those const casts is really ugly though. How about the attached change? Should

[vdr] howto change time of epg grap?

2009-06-08 Thread Mr. Tux
hello From what I observe vdr is waiting to grap the epg content of a timed recording until this recording starts. There are a bunch of channels where this leads to unwelcome side effects: - Take a channel that is using place holder events in the now section of epg during commerical breaks

Re: [vdr] Any really working HD video output systems for VDR?

2009-06-08 Thread Mattia Rossi
On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 23:40 +0300, Vesa wrote: -Original Message- I have not seen those kinds issues with eHD card. But I use on my setup separate video processor (DVDO VP30 with abt102) for deinterlacing and scaling to 1080P. Well, your setup is a little different than what I

Re: [vdr] Any really working HD video output systems for VDR?

2009-06-08 Thread Mattia Rossi
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 08:49:02 -0700 VDR User user@gmail.com wrote: --- snip - On a side note I just want to say that I see some posts here about peoples expectations.. I want to record X, and Y, while playing Z with no dropped frames, etc etc. I hope you guys understand that things

Re: [vdr] Any really working HD video output systems for VDR?

2009-06-08 Thread Georg Acher
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:40:04PM +0200, Mattia Rossi wrote: The need for time in such a discovery process, at least on my part, is fully understood, I only wish that sometimes the guys from Reel would provide a little more documentation (in english) about how they do some things in the

Re: [vdr] Any really working HD video output systems for VDR?

2009-06-08 Thread Morfsta
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Georg Acherac...@in.tum.de wrote: Just ask, there are no secrets ;) There's just not enough time to guess what will be of interest... Great! Georg, can you let us know why FF/FR and pause/play handling within VDR with reelbox-3 is so laggy? It makes jumping,

Re: [vdr] making VDR ext4-ready

2009-06-08 Thread Marcel Witte
jori.hamalai...@teliasonera.com schrieb am Montag 08 Juni 2009: On 07.06.2009 01:58, Marcel Witte wrote: So ext4 seems to be perfect for a video-partition, but to make it more perfect, it would be nice if VDR could use the fallocate()-systemcall as mentioned in the article. This would

Re: [vdr] [ANNOUNCE] vdr-text2skin-1.2

2009-06-08 Thread Adrian C.
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Thomas Günther wrote: Hello! This is the first release of the VDR Text2skin plugin from http://projects.vdr-developer.org. Thank you very much, this is a great plugin. I often lost track of various patches and cvs snapshots and I'm so glad you took over. I also had

Re: [vdr] Any really working HD video output systems for VDR?

2009-06-08 Thread Georg Acher
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 09:09:06PM +0100, Morfsta wrote: On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Georg Acherac...@in.tum.de wrote: Just ask, there are no secrets ;) There's just not enough time to guess what will be of interest... Great! Georg, can you let us know why FF/FR and pause/play